Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Aldi France closed its purchase of 545 Leader Price stores, 2 Casino supermarkets and 3 warehouses from Casino for EUR 717 million, the biggest expansion in its history, with the stores converted to Aldi through 2021.

Dubai will be home to the first rotating skyscraper, dubbed the “Dynamic Tower” which is expected to be completed in 2020. The 42-meter skyscraper will be made of a series of 80-story-high rotating condos each costing a whopping $30 million.

Multiplex's 62-storey 22 Bishopsgate tower - planned and sequenced using an immersive 4D virtual-reality model - reaches practical completion, becoming the City of London's tallest building.

MAPPA takes over animation for Attack on Titan Final Season, following the Scout Regiment years after reaching the sea as old tensions between Marleyans and Eldians erupt into war.

Alo moves into beauty with the gender-neutral Glow System, seven amla-based face and body products sold in nine Alo stores and online, ahead of a Nordstrom roll-out on 1 January.

Aldi Nord moved its historic store No. 1 out of the Albrecht family's original shop on Huestraße into a new building on Saatbruchstraße, built to its updated store concept.

The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 0.00%-0.25% on 16 December 2020, with every voting member in favour.

Ferrero signed a definitive agreement to buy Eat Natural, the UK maker of cereal bars, toasted muesli and granola, taking over its Halstead factory and its first step into healthier snacking.

Bones's Josee, the Tiger and the Fish opens in Japanese theaters, adapting Seiko Tanabe's short story about university student Tsuneo and Kusuhara Josee, a wheelchair-using young woman he meets while working as her caretaker.

Crown Sydney, the AUD $2.2BN, 71-storey tower at Barangaroo designed by Wilkinson Eyre, opened its hotel and restaurants after a construction run through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Apple today announced plans to build a 400,000-square-foot data center in Waukee, Iowa, which will provide backend infrastructure for the App Store, Siri, Apple Music, iMessage, and other Apple services in North America. The facility, which it says will create over 550 construction and operations jobs in the Des Moines area. Authority reportedly approved a deal on Thursday that will give Apple $208 million in state and local tax breaks to construct two data centers near Des Moines. Apple will reportedly buy 2,000 acres of land for the project, allowing for future development in the area.

The next generation Xbox was codenamed Scarlett and in an effort to track down if this information was accurate, I was able to view content that highlighted several unannounced Microsoft products that are coming in the next two years. Microsoft is planning for the next Xbox console release to arrive in 2020. But what is more interesting, is that Microsoft describes ‘Scarlett’ as a family of devices; meaning we may see multiple pieces of hardware released that year.

Apple is working on building an all-new campus location in London's Battersea Power Station, where 1,400 employees will be moved from eight...

Mobile game maker Supercell became the anchor tenant of Wood City, a new Helsinki district built almost entirely from engineered timber.

LVMH finalized its purchase of Tiffany & Co. at $131.50 a share in cash, a total of $15.8 billion, and immediately named Anthony Ledru as Tiffany's CEO and Alexandre Arnault as its product and communications chief.

Bandai Namco Pictures's Gintama: THE VERY FINAL opens in Japanese theaters, the third and concluding film in the Silver Soul arc as the Yorozuya and their allies make a final stand against the Tendoshuu and the ever-returning Utsuro.

CloverWorks' Horimiya begins broadcast, a slice-of-life romantic comedy about two high schoolers, class president Kyouko Hori and quiet classmate Izumi Miyamura, who discover the very different people each of them is at home.

Studio Bind's Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation begins airing, an isekai series following a 34-year-old shut-in reincarnated as an infant, Rudeus Greyrat, who resolves to live his new life without his old regrets.

Gintama: THE SEMI-FINAL streams as a lead-in to the franchise's finale, with Bandai Namco Pictures bringing Gintoki Sakata back into Edo's chaos as old rivalries and diplomatic disasters collide.

Sharefun Studio streams Scissor Seven Season 3, sending the hapless barber-assassin Wu Liuqi to the Xuanwu Kingdom with his partners Dabao and Xiaofei to dig into his true identity.

The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 0.00%-0.25% on 27 January 2021, with every voting member in favour.

Bumble's shares opened at $76 on Nasdaq on 11 February 2021, up from a $43 IPO price, making 31-year-old founder Whitney Wolfe Herd the youngest woman to take a US company public.

A special episode of Heaven Official's Blessing streams, giving Haoliners Animation's adaptation of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel a stand-alone entry following crown prince Xie Lian's return to the mortal world.

The world's tallest residential building began closing apartment sales on Billionaires' Row, months after finishing construction as Manhattan's newest supertall.

The fourth and final installment of Hideaki Anno's Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy finds Shinji, Asuka, and Rei sheltering in one of the last untouched human settlements after the Fourth Impact, each trying to live an ordinary life while a final, world-ending Instrumentality Project looms. Studio Khara closed out the 14-year reboot project with a film that saw three separate cuts released between 2021 and 2023, each refining the visuals and effects without changing the core story.

The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 0.00%-0.25% on 17 March 2021, with every voting member in favour.

Ferrero enters ice cream with Ferrero Rocher, Ferrero Rocher Dark and Raffaello sticks, made in Alzira, Spain, and launched first in five European countries in 2021.

Edinburgh's £150M Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, designed by HLM Architects and built by Brookfield Multiplex, opened to patients after ventilation and drainage faults forced repeated delays.

The fourth season of the Chinese donghua Dou Po Cangqiong continues Xiao Yan's cultivation-fantasy journey, adapting further chapters of Tian Can Tu Dou's web novel as he pursues the power to reclaim his family's standing.

Godzilla vs. Kong is a 2021 American monster film directed by Adam Wingard. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a sequel to Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and serves as the fourth film in Legendary's Monsterverse franchise, as well as the 36th film in the Godzilla franchise and the 12th film in the King Kong franchise.

Fruits Basket The Final Season premieres in Japan, the concluding TV season from TMS Entertainment that closes out the adaptation of Natsuki Takaya's manga as Tohru Honda and the Soma family confront the truth behind their curse.

OLM and P.I.C.S.'s Odd Taxi begins broadcast, an original mystery series following an anthropomorphic-animal taxi driver whose mundane conversations with passengers gradually connect to a missing-girl case.

A-1 Pictures' 86 EIGHTY-SIX begins airing, a mecha war drama adapting Asato Asato's light novels about the Eighty-Six, a persecuted people secretly forced to pilot the Republic of San Magnolia's supposedly unmanned combat drones.

Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner handed over the first Rheinmetall HX81 8x8 tractor units, paired with 7-axle low-bed semi-trailers, to Panzerbataillon 14 at the Hessen barracks in Wels.

A twelve-member jury found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty on all three counts - unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter - in the death of George Floyd during an arrest on 25 May 2020. The verdict came after about ten hours of deliberation.

The Chinese donghua adaptation of Chen Dong's xianxia novel Wanmei Shijie (Perfect World) begins streaming, following the cultivator Shi Hao as he rises from a remote village to face ever-greater trials tied to an ancient calamity.

The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 0.00%-0.25% on 28 April 2021, with every voting member in favour.

Link Click premieres, a Studio LAN donghua original about two young men who use a supernatural ability to enter photographs and relive their customers' pasts.

Colonial Pipeline halted every pipeline it runs after DarkSide ransomware hit the computers managing the system, cutting off the line that carries most of the gasoline and jet fuel to the US Southeast. The company paid a ransom of about 75 bitcoin, and fuel shortages and panic buying followed along the East Coast.

Little Island, a 2.4-acre park raised on sculpted concrete piles over the Hudson River, opened to the public at the site of Manhattan’s former Pier 54.

Ruo Hong Culture's Wu Shang Shen Di 2 begins streaming, the second season of the long-running Chinese donghua following a young cultivator's rise to power through a martial-arts fantasy world.

A Quiet Place Part II is a 2020 American post-apocalyptic horror film written, directed, and co-produced by John Krasinski. It is the sequel to A Quiet Place (2018), following the family from the film as they continue to navigate a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind aliens with an acute sense of hearing.

Aldi Nederland told about 150 office staff, warehouse workers and drivers in Best that their distribution centre, judged not future-proof, would close at the end of 2021, with its stores moving to Culemborg, Roermond and Roosendaal.

Kinema Citrus' Revue Starlight: The Movie opens in Japanese theaters, a feature continuation of the Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight TV series that reworks its stage-duel mythology around Karen Aijou and Hikari Kagura's fractured promise.

Bosch opened its new 300mm wafer fab in Dresden, a roughly €1 billion, highly automated plant producing sensors and microchips for cars and consumer electronics.